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Storage Protect Family

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TSM Client session handling

It appears that TSM session handling for DB2 database (and for other DBs as well) is based on data received from TSM client. If the no data is received from client node TSM assumes client is not responding and terminates the client database backup...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

GUI Point in Time Restore for a large number of files fails to display all files that are recoverable.

Point in Time restore of a Windows TSM Client with unlimited number of versions for 30 days does not work if a server has a larger number of files, or hourly backups are run.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Is a defect

SYSBACK restore of multibos

Allow restores of MutiBOS AIX systems using TSM for Sysback
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

pmr 32294.499.000 - installing stg agent with NIM

The ablility to use NIM to push Tivoli client software to all AIX server (the way we use to be able to do it)
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

AIX equivalent to Windows "snapshotcachelocation" option when using TSM image backups on AIX clients

We are currently running TSM image backups, (e.g. dsmc image backup /disk01 -snapshotcachesize=10), but this sometimes fails because of lack of space available in the Volume Group. The problem is that when the backup runs it creates a new temporar...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Backup Stub-Files only (no data) for migrated datasets (TSM HSM)

We need an option in TSM/HSM that for already migrated datasets only the stub file (inode) will be backed up and not the data itself.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

export node only metadata

export node metadata without the backup data from one TSM LC to another TSM LC and update owner of libvolume on TSM LM.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Request TSM Server 6.3.1 support for Veritas VCS on AIX

BNY Mellon requires TSM Server 6.3.1 for AIX support of Veritas VCS to implement haigh availablity.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Add a warning note to the "AUDIT VOLUME" TSM help page

The help page of the "AUDIT VOLUME" command should include a warning like: "Use the FIX=Yes option ONLY if you are absolutely sure that your tapedrive and SAN infrastructure are perfectly healthy. Make sure also that tape heads are clean and that ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Cross Mount Points in baclient without having to use domain statements in dsm.opt

Ability to cross Mount Points when setting up a BAClient without being forced to update the dsm.opt file everytime one is created.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

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